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  2. Anna Karenina - Wikipedia

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    Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) [1] is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.. Tolstoy called it his first true nove

  3. Sophia Tolstaya - Wikipedia

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    In 1889, Leo Tolstoy published his book The Kreutzer Sonata. [3] The book advocated for sexual abstinence. Its narrator murders his wife in a fit of jealousy. [15] Although quickly banned from publication by censorship, the novel had been assumed in the Russian society to be describing the unhappy marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Tolstaya, which greatly offended Tolstaya. [16]

  4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Wikipedia

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    Although she is a female dog, the name is masculine and is a reference to Alexei Karenin, the husband in Anna Karenina. Karenin displays extreme dislike of change. Once moved to the countryside, Karenin becomes more content as she is able to enjoy more attention from her companions. She also quickly befriends a pig named Mefisto.

  5. War and Peace - Wikipedia

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    In 1879, unhappy with Ganzen having chosen Anna Karenina to start with, Goncharov insisted: "War and Peace is the extraordinary poem of a novel, both in content and execution. It also serves as a monument to Russian history's glorious epoch when whatever figure you take is a colossus, a statue in bronze.

  6. Paradox of fiction - Wikipedia

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    For example, although Walton argues for the denial of premise 1 because the reader does not literally pity the character Anna, he also questions the truthfulness of premise 2 because of cases of irrational emotion. [5] Despite the popular rejection of premise 2, academics are still interested in the paradox and seriously consider other ...

  7. Rosemary Edmonds - Wikipedia

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    Her translation of Anna Karenina, entitled Anna Karenin, appeared in 1954. In a two-volume edition, her translation of War and Peace was published in 1957. In the introduction she wrote that War and Peace "is a hymn to life. It is the Iliad and Odyssey of Russia. Its message is that the only fundamental obligation of man is to be in touch with ...

  8. King, Queen, Knave - Wikipedia

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    King, Queen, Knave is the second novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin) while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic.Written in the years 1927–8, it was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October 1928 and then translated into German by Siegfried von Vegesack as König, Dame, Bube: ein Spiel mit dem ...

  9. Anna Karenina principle - Wikipedia

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    The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. [2] Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.